Môwtsâʼâh — H4163

Definition

feminine noun

a family descent; also a sewer

1. origin, place of going out from
1. origin
2. places of going out to or from
1. privy

Usually translated as

draught house, going forth

Origin

feminine of H4161; (marg.; compare H6675)

• Môwtsâʼ (H4161)
• Tsôwʼâh (H6675)

Occurrences

Môwtsâʼâh occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Kings (1), Micah (1)

• 2 Kings 10:27 — And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house (לְמֽוֹצָא֖וֹת) unto this day.
• Micah 5:2 — But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth (וּמוֹצָאֹתָ֥יו) have been from of old, from everlasting.